hum.. well portage compiles/makes/makes installs for you and keeps a database. but considering that compiling by hand isn't such a big deal, think of emerge/portage like just a tool that does ./configure;make;make install for you.
On 5/22/05, askar ... <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear everybody! > > I have one topic to discuss. > I'm not native speaker in english, but I will try. > > My first linux was Debian. I began using it in 1999 in fall, just > because my senior course mate was using it. After that for me it was > interesting to install several distros: Mandrake, Miracle, Turbo, > Vine, Red Hat, Suse, Slackware. I didn't use them for a long time - I > just installed them for fun, but trying to find my own distro. Before > Gentoo, I used to think that Debian is better (not the best - because > I'm not good at linux to say which is the best) than other distros. > One year ago I tried gentoo and I feeled that maybe this is what I was > looking for. Even know I use gentoo at home. I don't use linux at work > - linux is my hobby. In the mean time I still try other distros to see > how do they look like, but not so often as before. Saying again, I > don't have strong knowledge to say which is the best linux for me, so > I estimate the best linux for my only basing on the easy-to-use > distro. Of course, this is a matter of taste, any person has his own > favorite distro. In gentoo I liked the portage and emerge concept, > that I can build my own system and make it for my hardware (if I > install from stage 1). But, on the other hand emerge does for us > installations, compilations, dependency checks, etc - we do not > compile by hand. If I'm not wrong we can put Gentoo, Slackware and LFS > distros on the same line - I mean they're all source based distros. As > far as I know Slackware there is no emerge-like tools - I have to do > everything manually. Here at > http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major written about > Slackware "...if you need help with your Linux box, find a Slackware > user. A Slackware user is more likely to fix the problem than a user > familiar with any other distribution...". Is it true? This is one > question. Also, it seems most of current gentoo users had experience > with other distro, so they have rich experience in linux, and this > help them to solve linux-generic problems. In my case, I would like to > learn linux as deep as possible. Is it ok if I use emerge-like, > apt-get-like comfortable tools? That was my second question. What you > recommend for those, who would like to learn linux from fundamentals? > In order to do so, I think, learner has to do everything manually. I > haven't installed LFS distro before, so I don't know is it like > Slackware or not, but as the name says, this is "linux from sratch", > like gentoo... > I think, answers to this thread will be interesting not only for me, > but also for many ML participants. > Thanks in advance. > > askar > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
